As a jungle main I played fill today and got top lane 2 times. The first time i played morde vs darius and solo killed darius 4 times and once with a gank and we lost because of the fed twitch. The 2nd time I played sylas and got hard stomped but out botlane was fed so I got carried. The question is how to balance top lane without buffing mid?
i always saw top lane as the first ones to go into a team fight and be the tank. however it seems tanks only live like 1-2 seconds longer if focused so not much impact in general. tanks should have defenses increased and damage downed to compensate. i know roles are mixed with tanks and what not but top should play more into that role. it might be that items for tanks are not really that great either for true tanks
Top lane has always been a lane that has been the least impactful. What made it fine for me was that it was usually fun.
When I mained top lane seasons ago, there wasn't a lot of interaction with other lanes, thus your impact was minimal. Typically, you'd bash each other around top lane, one of you would win, and then you'd group or split pushing depending on the situation.
Now there's always at least one jungler camping top lane and a lot more ranged options top lane, and that feels miserable.
The issue bot lane is that the meta is extremely strict. You want to play an engage support and an ADC with a high range. If you play anything else into that, then your margin for error is so slim because playing an engage support doesn't require thought. Sometimes you'll miss a hook, and it will land anyways. The jungler isn't going to gank bot lane if the enemy has an engage support too. That lane will be too hard to kill 3v2, and a 3v3 could end in disaster.
The only option to save bot lane, and thus save the game, in that situation is to get mid ahead.
You can't really effect that as a top laner unless you seriously go out of your way, which could do more harm than good.
Actually true af. I played a few games of top to learn GP and despite feeding my ass off I still won them because top lane simply has no impact. My ult probably helped a bit, but still.
I don't think 2 games are really a good sample size for the statement. Going off anecdotes, I literally just finished off a fantastic game as Garen top where my own Bot Lane had lost and I hard carried us through.
